Well, today was a LONG day. My Technical Analysis showed the Australian/US Dollar cross to be in a nicely shaped cycle and at 7:30 this morning, the cycle was approaching an ideal entry point. I got in and everything was maturing nicely when all of a sudden, the price dropped 50 pips and I found myself down $365.00. Confident in my analysis, I watched and waited for the down-spike to exhaust itself and then I re-entered with a buy order. Well, all day long, just as the market would correct for the spike, and I would approach getting even, another spike would hit. All day long I played this game until finally at 9:30PM, still 15 pips away from my targeted close price, someone flooded the market and the price rose 50 pips in 10 seconds, filling my target order, making me well over $700.00 to wipe out my earlier losses and still have enough left over to add a tidy $356.00 (+11.20%) profit for the day.

Week 2
Trading Day	Mon, Aug 3, 09	Tue, Aug 4, 09	Wed, Aug 5, 09	Thu, Aug 6, 09	Fri, Aug 7, 09
Opening Balance	$2,382.57	$2,737.50	$3,179.27	$3,535.27	$3,888.80
2% Risk	$47.65	$54.75	$63.59	$70.71	$77.78
5% Increase	$238.26	$273.75	$317.93	$353.53	$388.88
Actual increase	$354.93	$441.77	$356.00	$0.00	$0.00
Closing Balance	$2,737.50	$3,179.27	$3,535.27	$3,888.80	$4,277.68
Daily Increase	14.90%	16.14%	11.20%	0.00%	0.00%
Total Increase	-45.14%	-36.29%	-29.15%	-22.07%	-14.27%